The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) fell today. The Tel Aviv 25 Index fell 0.64% to 1,634.32 points, the Tel Aviv 100 Index fell 0.45% to 1,423.70 points, and the BlueTech 50 Index fell 0.87% to 366.00 points. Turnover was NIS 556.4 million.
In the foreign currency market, futures trading pointed to the shekel-dollar representative exchange rate rising 0.62% from Friday's rate to NIS 3.882/$, while the shekel-euro rate was up 0.20% to NIS 4.352/€.
In the bond market, the corporate bond benchmark Tel-Bond 20 Index rose 0.06%.
In the stock market, Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NYSE: TEVA; TASE: TEVA) rose 2.54%, for the highest rise today on the Tel Aviv 25 Index, on the day's largest trading turnover, and Perrigo Company (NYSE:PRGO; TASE:PRGO) rose 1.91%.
Bank Leumi (TASE: LUMI) fell 2.2%, Bank Hapoalim (TASE: POLI) fell 1.81%, Israel Discount Bank (TASE: DSCT) fell 2.55%, and Mizrahi Tefahot Bank (TASE:MZTF) fell 1.64%.
Strauss Group Ltd. (TASE:STRS) fell 3.3% for the biggest fall on the Tel Aviv 25 Index and Delek Group Ltd. (TASE: DLEKG) fell 1.49%.
Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on May 3, 2015
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